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Comments on: Finding Places https://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=7279 The Right Stuff, The Wrong Way Thu, 05 Sep 2013 05:23:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Jonathan Green https://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=7279#comment-77575 Thu, 05 Sep 2013 05:23:19 +0000 http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=7279#comment-77575 I don’t know about this series. ALMS was always very fast race cars who started out with very fast cars, now it’s very watered down, Grand am started with much slower cars couldn’t even win the Daytona 24 with the new dp cars, they lost to GT cars. Now the cars aren’t close to Europe. They get rid of P1. Also bring along the Deltawing. Ha.Ha. Why not the old 80 with the GTP and Group C. I guess you look at endurance racing it’s changing, In America I don’t like the way it’s going. Europe is better with Porsche joining the party.

]]> By: David Soares https://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=7279#comment-77573 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 23:51:23 +0000 http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=7279#comment-77573 It seems to me that it is generally acknowledged that Burli Piech cut his teeth at the family cuckoo-clock werk in 1962-1964 leading the development team for the flat six engine at the heart of the typ 901 — the car we know as the Porsche 911. Piech had a very strong stake in that car and its engine, which powered the first tube-framed plastic prototypes that he went on to develop, starting with the 901-powered Carrera-6 and 910. I think that many attribute the end of the “big” Porsche prototypes more to the end of the air-cooling subsidy from VW upon Nordhoff’s passing and the defenestration of Lotz by Leiding than to Ferry casting out the children in the wake of Burli’s dalliance with cousin Gerd’s wife. Fuhrmann started racing 911’s out of economic necessity and practicality, and was proven correct following the Oil-Crisis when Group 5 went to “silhouette” cars beginning in 1976. At least, this is my understanding of history (and Piech).

As for United Sportscar… They succeeded in killing the ALMS as a rival to NA$CAR for manufacturer investment. Now what? Based on the run-what-you-brung “class structure,” they clearly have not the slightest clue what to do next.

]]> By: John Brooks https://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=7279#comment-77572 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 19:42:46 +0000 http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=7279#comment-77572 In reply to Ncrdbl1.

I have allowed this rather rude and impertinent comment to be posted because while I may not agree with your opinions, nor the manner in which you express yourself, but I do believe that you have the right to hold such opinions, it is the sign of civilisation that we can agree to disagree. IMSA’s demise was more a function of overspending manufacturers than plots from the ACO, who are, in truth, a small French sporting club. Group C also suffered from this and the interference of the FIA.

Bill Oursler is a respected writer and commentator for the past 40 years and has worked at all levels. I am proud to have his thoughts published in this blog, they are intended to provoke thought and debate, I would say he has hit a home run.

John Brooks

]]> By: Ncrdbl1 https://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=7279#comment-77569 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:06:15 +0000 http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=7279#comment-77569 Why is bandwidth wasted on such drivel? Admit it you are a bitter ole fan of ALMS who cannot accept that NEVER has a single country series based on ACO rules succeeded. EVERY time it has been tried it has failed. It is fiscally impossible for the series to work. Grand-Am was based on the same mind set on which IMSA originally was based before it got corrupted by ACO supporters. Your bitterness flows through every letter of this article.

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